Yours…also Ours

 

By Sokhon Phem

 

My dear fellow citizens,

Please forgive me,

If I’m writing you this nonsense,

To express a thought maybe too unpleasant,

Talking about facts or circumstances

To care - to be aware, be neglected

The more the talks the worst as habit

Because of tears always repeated.

Prâtes “the Country” is ours,

It does not belong

To relatives or to ancestors,

Neither to those - who own guns

And own power, But it remains always ours.

No need to say love

Just playing actor,

But love - with Heart and Soul

Is primary for

Us - for all - and many more.

Establish honesty and fairness

As a basic thought

Interacting with peoples

To learn and to work for both,

Determine strong ethics and democracy

for good work - but not for fraud

Avoid repeating tears

To enjoy all – of - your good thought.

 

 

You (we) need to feel more

To understand more

You (we) need to love more not to ignore

You (we) will gain back love

From the others.

You (we) need to cry more - not for own label

better cry hard - to clean (y) us.

You (we) need to laugh more

To avoid being at hell

With better heart - can earn good health.

You (we) need to see more,

Rather than - to own fantasy simplest

You (we) need to hear more

and listen to the needs of the rest

You (we) need to give (the poor) more,

And taking away - much less.

That is important

And remains strongest.

It remains the backbone – to stability …

But not to weakness.

You (we) need to have patience

Rather than fast - as hay burning (“Phleung

Chambeung”)

Knowing on what to do

When reaching the main intent

To care, to aware when having chance

As to stand - and - to hold

The Olympic flame

For the advantage and better name

For good - not - for bad

To enjoy fair Games

 

 

You (we) need to look more

to realize there is no difference,

To create a peaceful place,

But not to punish - or to rape - the innocents.

If you (we) have enough for good living

Why not to share - the common sense

Peace, Freedom and Democracy

These - never solved

By anger or by revenge.

You (we) need to create place,

To what you (we) have decided

To build peacefully ground,

To all compromised,

For their good dreams - from old till child

To those in town - and countryside

to gain more trust, from their good smiles,

To make it work – never … to try

For us, for all – for a better life.

 

Sincerely yours with love

Sokhon Phem

 

You = Yours = Yourselves = Laws = Managers = Leaders....

We = Ours = Innocents = Ancestors = Us = Our children ....

Peace-Freedom-Democracy

To All

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